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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2012, 06:39:53 PM »
but don't they have to make sure people will watch it before they'll make stuff like that? Since if no one cares, then it'll be a waste
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2012, 07:12:13 PM »
Clearly, people care. Check the name of the website. I think if we could manage a widely watched channel, we would havet he next big sci-fi series
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2012, 09:41:10 PM »
I don't think anybody would wanna see an Animorphs TV show made by me :P. It'd definitely not only be animated(cheaper, practical, and you can get away with more stuff than you would if it were live action) But it'd be pretty...anime-esque. In fact Jake, Tobias and Rachel would probably look something like this

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And the opening theme would be something like this:

[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31vqe4DqFQ[/spoiler]


Other than the character design and over-the-top opening, the episodes would pretty much follow the books in order with a few fillers in between. And I agree about David being a recurring villain. The only thing is how they could make that work. David knows everything about the Anis. Where they live, who their family is, ect. How long will he keep failing against them before saying "screw it, I'm gonna turn them in to the Yeerks."
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2012, 09:51:11 PM »
Quote from: Blu-Ray on February 02, 2012, 09:41:10 PM
I don't think anybody would wanna see an Animorphs TV show made by me :P. It'd definitely not only be animated(cheaper, practical, and you can get away with more stuff than you would if it were live action) But it'd be pretty...anime-esque. In fact Jake, Tobias and Rachel would probably look something like this

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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2012, 10:04:33 PM »
Quote from: Blu-Ray on February 02, 2012, 09:41:10 PM
I don't think anybody would wanna see an Animorphs TV show made by me :P. It'd definitely not only be animated(cheaper, practical, and you can get away with more stuff than you would if it were live action) But it'd be pretty...anime-esque. In fact Jake, Tobias and Rachel would probably look something like this

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler][/spoiler]


And the opening theme would be something like this:

[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31vqe4DqFQ[/spoiler]


Other than the character design and over-the-top opening, the episodes would pretty much follow the books in order with a few fillers in between. And I agree about David being a recurring villain. The only thing is how they could make that work. David knows everything about the Anis. Where they live, who their family is, ect. How long will he keep failing against them before saying "screw it, I'm gonna turn them in to the Yeerks."
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2012, 08:02:12 AM »
Quote from: Blu-Ray on February 02, 2012, 09:41:10 PM
I don't think anybody would wanna see an Animorphs TV show made by me :P. It'd definitely not only be animated(cheaper, practical, and you can get away with more stuff than you would if it were live action) But it'd be pretty...anime-esque. In fact Jake, Tobias and Rachel would probably look something like this

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler][/spoiler]


And the opening theme would be something like this:

[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31vqe4DqFQ[/spoiler]



I'm a huge fan of those character models. 


Anyway, I definitely think if you wanted to re-create the show, you could definitely capture an audience.  I think the easiest way would be to do one big epic movie, and then have the television series follow after it.  (Though that could end up badly as well, I can't think of any successful shows that followed that progression off the top of my head.)

But if you did something like The Andalite Chronicles as a big, epic movie (thinking Avatar style,) not only would you attract a new huge crowd, you'd also reign in all the fans.  The various movies about different comics seem to do very well, I don't know why Animorphs would be any different.  I'm sure then you'd get enough Animorphs fans interested in the television series that followed (and new fans) in order to make it successful.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2012, 10:10:48 AM »
I like that. If anythingi s going to be a movie, I would say either andalite or hork bjair. They're both extremely epic.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2012, 10:26:57 AM »
Should do both, imo.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2012, 10:30:56 AM »
We would have to find a way to hide the message "Suck it James Cameron." In the hork bjair.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2012, 11:17:16 AM »
Quote from: Bealocwealm on January 13, 2012, 12:49:32 PM
One thing I realized is that it's basically impossible to work the "we can't tell you who we are" etc element into a TV show where you're showing their faces, their lives, their enemies, their battles, etc. So it might be interesting to have an episode where they try to write journals of what's happening to them, but eventually of course have to destroy these journals.
Really fun to read about these ideas. I have always imagined filming my own as a kid, seeing locations near my home that look like they might be the same malls, construction sites and tobias' meadow. As to above, I always imagined them to be writing a blog of some sort, in what was the 90's version of the internet (was too young to remember much of it, used the internet for the first time in 2001). With Marco, then Ax, as computer whizzes, they can do stuff like mask their ip address so that they cannot be traced by the yeerks.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2012, 03:47:20 PM »
Making movies from the Chronicles books is something you do AFTER the show is a success, not before. As good as the Chronicle books are, they are dependent on the things we learn in the Animorphs series proper in order to retain meaning. You need to have a steady preconception of Elfangor's character before the Andalite Chronicles, otherwise learning the Elfangor is NOT a hero doesn't have nearly the same impact. Likewise, the Hork-Bajir Chronicles rotates at least partially around our preconceptions of Visser Three and Alloran.

And that's just how they function as books. In a television medium, if you had one of the Chronicles play first, then viewers going into Animorphs, being advertised as a continuation of that neat alien movie with all the weird visuals they saw, will be treated that is visually, tonally and thematically very different, and it may turn a lot of them off. No, best to start off with the main series.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2012, 05:47:16 PM »
I definitely didn't think of that, I suppose the audience would be rather disappointed in a series taking place on earth after all the alien eye-candy.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2012, 07:00:53 PM »
The main issues I'm thinking of are, simply getting it started to convince a bunch of people a 90's childrens book series is cool, and keeping people watching with all the filler time. We would need to add in some plotlines adding more story progression.
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2012, 07:07:47 PM »
well, one thing you can say to convince them is that Harry Potter was started in the 90's. Harry Potter is cool (as far as I know)
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Re: If you were making an Animorphs TV show...
« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2012, 07:10:10 PM »
Well yes, but harry potter also gradually grew toward an older age group (I.e. swearing in the newer books) while animorphs remained in the same "for kids but full of darkness" spot.
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